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Apple releases iOS 7.0.1 update to fix fingerprint scanner

Day one patch allows iTunes purchases to correctly work with prints

The new iPhone 5S is out and normal customers are getting their fingerprints all over it—exactly what Apple intended with the inclusion of the fingerprint scanner. However, early reviews have included the occasional note that the fingerprint scanner's ability to enable iTunes purchases didn't quite work correctly—the iPhone 5S would prompt for a password instead of simply accepting the fingerprint.

To address this, Apple has issued an update to iOS 7 for the iPhone 5S (and also for the 5C, though it's unclear what else the update addresses). Several other outlets are reporting that the update is only 17.5MB, but when I checked via iTunes on my fresh-from-the-box iPhone 5S, I got a download that was 1.39GB in size.

We'll have our full iPhone 5S review up as soon as possible, along with video showing off how the new devices (and their new cameras) work.

Lee Hutchinson
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As mentioned above, you cannot download just the OTA patch from iTunes - you download the entire iOS image. (It's why jailbroken users should absolutely not do OTA's, but can update to un-jailbreak a device.)

So, with iTunes we have to download the entire damn OS for a minor update? iTunes is pretty much Apple proving to the world that Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on shitty crap-tastic software.

Or, you could use the preferred method of OTA.

iTunes downloads the whole thing for use in case a full restore is necessary.

Just like how if you download a Windows Service Pack for "offline patching" on a different system than you want, it downloads the full update; but if you download it directly on the machine you are patching, it does only the delta.

So, with iTunes we have to download the entire damn OS for a minor update? iTunes is pretty much Apple proving to the world that Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on shitty crap-tastic software.

Or, you could use the preferred method of OTA.

iTunes downloads the whole thing for use in case a full restore is necessary.

Just like how if you download a Windows Service Pack for "offline patching" on a different system than you want, it downloads the full update; but if you download it directly on the machine you are patching, it does only the delta.

I do use OTA for updates. However, iTunes shouldn't by default be pulling a whole image either. But it's just one more way in which iTunes sucks. It''s easily the worst software Apple produced this millennium. We all rightfully bitched about Apple Maps but it's made huge improvements since then. MobileMe wasn't that great either, but it was also improved and has now been replaced with the superior iCould.

iTunes? Not only does it still suck, the suckage has actually become worse; a blight across computers everywhere.

I just noticed the push notification on my 5S and so immediately headed to Ars knowing the answer would be here On another note the disparity in file size between the handset and the IPSW download in iTunes, is because of the way in which OTA updates are delivered. They are incremental rather than all-encompasing since it isn't necessary to allow for devices to be restored via OTA updates.

I do use OTA for updates. However, iTunes shouldn't by default be pulling a whole image either. But it's just one more way in which iTunes sucks. It''s easily the worst software Apple produced this millennium. We all rightfully bitched about Apple Maps but it's made huge improvements since then.

iTunes? Not only does it still suck, the suckage has actually become worse; a blight across computers everywhere.

Why the down votes? iTunes is terrible and has been for years or forever. It's exactly like MS software: cosmetic improvements and the same crappy behavior and bugs.

I do use OTA for updates. However, iTunes shouldn't by default be pulling a whole image either. But it's just one more way in which iTunes sucks. It''s easily the worst software Apple produced this millennium. We all rightfully bitched about Apple Maps but it's made huge improvements since then.

iTunes? Not only does it still suck, the suckage has actually become worse; a blight across computers everywhere.

Why the down votes? iTunes is terrible and has been for years or forever. It's exactly like MS software: cosmetic improvements and the same crappy behavior and bugs.

Clearly others disagreed that the way iTunes handles the OTA's different is a bad thing. The rest of his rant just plain out is off-topic and a waste of time spent reading it here.

Since you have a much larger pool of people using an entirely new version of software when it's released to the public, as opposed to just developers, then it only makes sense that you are likely to find more bugs as opposed to future updates to that new OS. But that would be the case with any company that produces software.

I do use OTA for updates. However, iTunes shouldn't by default be pulling a whole image either. But it's just one more way in which iTunes sucks. It''s easily the worst software Apple produced this millennium. We all rightfully bitched about Apple Maps but it's made huge improvements since then.

iTunes? Not only does it still suck, the suckage has actually become worse; a blight across computers everywhere.

Why the down votes? iTunes is terrible and has been for years or forever. It's exactly like MS software: cosmetic improvements and the same crappy behavior and bugs.

Because cool new features that don't hurt you in any way shape or form fail on rare occasions? Good advice.

Was it not perfect the first time? I thought Apple gets it right always and after so many beta releases, why this was not caught as it is an important (flagship) feature? I am surprised..

*yawn* This argument again?

The list of Apple's mis-steps is long and distinguished. Anyone who understands software even *slightly* knows you cannot, no matter how hard you try or say otherwise, bugs WILL always exist. You can test for everything until you find out you didn't test for everything.

Besides, the update came two days after general release. Who's to say they didn't already know, but the devices were already packaged and shipped? Seems to me they probably knew, had the fix in-hand and waited.

I do use OTA for updates. However, iTunes shouldn't by default be pulling a whole image either. But it's just one more way in which iTunes sucks. It''s easily the worst software Apple produced this millennium. We all rightfully bitched about Apple Maps but it's made huge improvements since then.

iTunes? Not only does it still suck, the suckage has actually become worse; a blight across computers everywhere.

Why the down votes? iTunes is terrible and has been for years or forever. It's exactly like MS software: cosmetic improvements and the same crappy behavior and bugs.